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1. Atomic structure

2. Moles and formulae

3. Moles and equations

4. Shapes of molecules and ions

5. Bonding

6. Structure of elements and compounds

7. Moles and volumetric analysis

8. Energetics I – Hess’s law

9. Equilibrium and le Châtelier’s principle

10. Kinetics I – rates of Reaction

11. Oxidation and reduction 1

12. Periodicity – trends in period 3

13. Groups 1 and 2

14. Group 7

15. Organic Chemistry I - nomenclature

16. Organic Chemistry II – reactions I

17. Organic Chemistry III – reactions II

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19. The periodic table - period 3

20. The periodic table - group 4

21. Chemical equilibria: Kc

22. Chemical equilibria: Kp

23. How to answer questions on titration calculations

24. Laboratory chemistry: making observations and inferences

25. Acid-Base equilibria I – pH, K w and Ka

26. Acid Base equilibria II – buffer Solutions, titrations & indicators

27. Organic Chemistry 1 – key concepts and optical isomerism

28. Energetics – lattice enthalpy and Born-Haber cycle

29. Answering questions on Born-Haber cycles

30. Laboratory chemistry – separation & purification techniques

31. Organic chemistry 2 – halogeno-compounds & Grignard

reagents

32. Organic chemistry 3 – carboxylic acids, esters & acyl chlorides

33. Organic chemistry 4 – carbonyl compounds

34. Organic Chemistry 5 – compounds containing nitrogen

35. Answering questions on organic pathways and conversions

36. Laboratory chemistry – continuous practical assessment

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37. Redox equilibria 1: standard electrode potentials & cells

38. Transition metals 1: definitions & properties

39. Reactions of benzene & its compounds

40. Organic reaction mechanisms

41. Answering questions on electrochemical cells

42. Critical analysis of experimental procedures & accuracy

43. Rate equations, orders & constants

44. Rate expression orders & experimental procedures

45. Standard electrode potentials & feasibility of reactions

46. Transition metals 2 - compounds & reactions

47. Answering questions on transition metals

48. Laboratory chemistry - organic techniques

49. Rate orders & reaction mechanisms

50. Redox equilibria 3: applications

51. Redox equilibria 4: redox titrations

52. Reactions of functional groups: revision summary

53. Answering questions on organic synthesis

54. Organic analysis 1: infrared spectroscopy

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55. Organic analysis II: mass spectrometry

56. Maths for chemists I

57. Answering questions on redox titrations 1

58. Applied organic chemistry

59. Titration calculations: revision summary

60. Laboratory chemistry: summary of organic tests

61. Organic Analysis III - low resolution NMR spectroscopy

62. Answering questions on identifying unkown organic compounds

63. Answering questions on identifying unkown inorganic compounds

64. Acid base III: buffer solutions, pH curves and dibasic acids

65. Calorimetry experiments

66. Maths for chemists 2

67. Whys students lose marks: AS redox questions

68. Periodic table: anomalies of first member of group

69. Revision summary: trends in the periodic table 1

70. Revision summary: trends in the periodic table 2

71. Revision summary: electronegativity, ionisation energies & electron

affinities

72. Graphical techniques

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73. Reaction mechanisms - revision summary

74. Ammonia and the Haber process

75. The chemistry of chromium

76. Polymers

77. The importance of hydrogen bonding

78. Recognising, constructing & interpreting redox reactions

79. Catalysts

80. The extraction of aluminium

81. UV and visible spectroscopy

82. Why students lose marks: AS energetics

83. The chemistry of copper

84. Free radical subsitution & polymerisation

85. Salt hydrolysis

86. Deprotonation (acid-base reactions)

87. σ and π - bonds and the structure of benzene

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88. Disproportionation

89. The chemistry of aluminium

90. Complexes

91. Naming of organic compounds

92. Electrophilic addition

93. Isomerism in organic chemistry

94. Enthalpies of solution

95. Rearranging formulae

96. Relating the properties of crystal structures to structure and

bonding

97. Oxidation and reduction in organic chemistry

98. Improve your mark: AS energetics

99. Why students lose marks: A2 acid base calculations

100. Organic functionality and structure – part I (AS)

101. Organic functionality and structure – part 2 (A2)

102. Improve your marks: A2 energetics- Born-Haber cycles

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103. Let EMMA do your mole calculations for you

104. A FEW H’s will produce any half-equation

105. Logs and powers in chemistry

106. AS chemical bonding: intermolecular bonds

107. AS chemical bonding: intramolecular bonds

108. Amino acids and polypeptides

109. Cracking, reforming and isomerisation

110. ∆G = ∆H - T∆S

111. Oxyacids

112. Acid base reactions of transition metal complexes

113. High resolution NMR spectroscopy

114. Buffers: action and calculations

115. Polarimetry

116. The application of organic reactions to unfamiliar molecules (AS)

117. The Application of organic reactions to unfamiliar molecules (A2)

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118. Calculating pH changes during titrations

119. Molecular mass spectrometry : a summary

120. Calculating equilibrium compositions – a cool method!

121. Why students lose marks when making observations

122. Lewis acids and bases

123. The ideal gas equation

124. The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution

125. Why students lose marks : Born-Haber calculations

126. Racemisation

127. The Gibb’s free energy change and spontaneity

128. Key definitions in AS chemistry

129. Atom economy

130. Synthetic pathways in organic chemistry

131. Why students lose marks – reaction mechanisms

132. How an indicator works and how to choose it - interactively

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133. Acylation

134. Factors affecting the rate of hydrolysis of haloalkanes

135. Using Grignard reagents in organic synthesis

136. Why students lose marks : bonding

137. How science works: what do enthalpy of combustion of alcohols data

tell us?

138. Industrial uses of transition elements and their compounds

139. Ligand exchange reactions

140. Metal extraction and recycling

141. Answering exam questions: rates of reaction

142. The chemistry of the ozone layer

143. Are biofuels carbon neutral?

144. Catalytic converters

145. Degradable polymers

146. Fuel cells

147. C-13 Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy

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148. Chiral compounds as medicines

149. Friedel Crafts reactions

150. How to answer AS exam questions on bonding

151. How to answer AS exam questions on atomic structure

152. How to answer questions on halogens

153. Amines

154. Chemistry of phenols

155. Chemistry of benzene

156. Chromatography 1 : paper and thin-layer

157. How to answer questions on moles, molarity etc

158. How to answer questions on redox equations

159. Column chromatography

160. How to answer AS questions on kinetics

161. Polymers – biodegradability and recycling

162. How to answer questions about structure and bonding

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163. Ethanol production

164. Green chemistry

165. Extraction of metals

166. The chemistry and benefits of catalysts

167. The syntheses of aspirin & paracetamol

168. Combinatorial chemistry

169. EDTA

170. How to answer AS level questions on equilibria

171. Zwitterions

172. Bonding and electronegativity: Van Arkel triangles

173. The chemistry of breathalysers

174. How to answer questions on alkane combustion and environmental

pollution

175. Essential laboratory procedures: PSA’s - AS part 1

176. Functional group levels

177. How to answer questions on alkaline earth metals (group 2) and their
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178. Inorganic reaction trends

179. Structure and bonding - when, and when not, to use IMF

180. Bonding and anti-bonding molecular orbitals

181. Genetic fingerprinting

182. Electronegativity – predicting reaction products

183. How to answer questions on enthalpy changes

184. Rate vs yield I

185. Structure and function of DNA

186. Halogenation in organic chemistry

187. Avoidable errors in reaction mechanism questions

188. Equilibrium at AS level : interactively

189. Chemistry of dyes

190. Rate vs yield II

191. Reactions producing stereoisomers

192. Avoidable errors in reaction mechanisms at A2 level

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193 Brønsted - Lowry bases in ‘A’ level chemistry

194 How to answer questions involving entropy changes and free energy
changes of systems

195 How to answer questions on isomerism

196 How to balance chemical equations

197 Ions in solution 1: Why do some ionic compounds dissolve and some do not?

198 How to answer questions involving entropy, entropy changes and total entropy
changes

199 Measuring reducing and oxidising powers by electrode potentials

200 Van der Waals forces

201 Ions in solution II: the properties & reactions of transition metal ions in solution

202 Isomerism in alcohols

203 Basic atomic structure

204 Chlorine and chlorates

205 Applying electrode potential data

206 Enthalpy change of neutralisation, ∆Hn or ∆Hneut

207 E-Z isomerism

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208 Calculating pH

209 Is bio ethanol carbon neutral?

210 Depletion of the ozone Layer

211 How to calculate oxidation numbers

212 Ionisation energies: answering exam questions

213 Amino acids

214 An interesting molecule

215 Hess’s law for year 1 A level

216 Water as a reagent

217 The reaction mechanism for a free radical substitution reaction

218 Variations in Gibbs free energy

219 Isomerism in transition metal complexes

220 Nucleophilic substitution versus elimination In haloalkanes

221 Electrophilic addition to alkenes

222 Compromise conditions

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223 Electrophilic substitution

224 Nucleophilic addition

225 Electrochemical cells : concentration effects

226 Carbocations

227 Fats and oils

228 The A level chemistry of benzocaine

229 Functional group testing

230 Colour in chemistry

231 Colorimetry

232 The structure of DNA

233 Solubility and solubility product

234 Intermolecular forces

235 Examiner’s approach : spontaneous change, Gibb’s free energy and entropy

236 Stability constants (Kstab)

237 Skeletal formulae

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238 Gas Chromatography

239 EDTA - (Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid)

240 Reconciling Mechanisms and Rates

241 Proteins

242 Manufacture of Ethanol

243 Saturated and Unsaturated Lipids

244 Detergents

245 Using Chemistry: water analysis

246 Chemical Stability

247 Ellingham Diagrams

248 The Solvay Process - Manufacturing Sodium Carbonate

249 The Chemistry of Climate Change

250 Thermometric Titrations

251 Diamond, Graphite and Graphene

252 Measuring Rates of Reaction

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253 Rate vs. Temperature: the Arrhenius Equation

254 The Oxides of Nitrogen

255 Enzymes: Activity and Kinetics

256 Factors Affecting the Rates of Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions

257 The Stereochemistry of Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions

258 Lewis vs. Brønsted-Lowry: Acid-Base Theories

259 Addition vs. Condensation Polymerisation

260 Addition – Elimination Reactions

261 All the Ps: pH, pOH, pKa, pKb and pKw

262 Vanadium Chemistry

263 Biodegradable Polymers

264 How to Do Bond Enthalpy Calculations

265 Electrolysis – An Electrode Potential Approach

266 Titration Curves and Indicators

267 Addition Reactions in Asymmetric Alkenes